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=Pale'mon=, son of a rich merchant. He fell in love with Anna, daughter of Albert, master of one of his father's s.h.i.+ps. The purse-proud merchant, indignant at this, tried every means to induce his son to abandon such a ”mean connection,” but without avail; so at last he sent him in the _Britannia_ (Albert's s.h.i.+p) ”in charge of the merchandise.” The s.h.i.+p was wrecked near Cape Colonna, in Attica; and although Palemon escaped, his ribs were so broken that he died almost as soon as he reached the sh.o.r.e.

A gallant youth, Palemon was his name, Charged with the commerce hither also came; A father's stern resentment doomed to prove, He came, the victim of unhappy love.

Falconer, _The s.h.i.+pwreck_, i. 2 (1756).

=Pale'mon and Lavinia=, a poetic version of Boaz and Ruth. ”The lovely young Lavinia” went to glean in the fields of young Palemon, ”the pride of swains;” and Palemon, falling in love with the beautiful gleaner, both wooed and won her.--Thomson, _The Seasons_ (”Autumn,” 1730).

=Pales= (2 _syl._), G.o.d of shepherds and their flocks.--_Roman Mythology._

Pomona loves the orchard; And Liber loves the vine; And Pales loves the straw-built shed, Warm with the breath of kine.

Lord Macaulay, _Lays of Ancient Rome_ (”Prophecy of Capys,” 1842).

=Pal'inode= (3 _syl._), a shepherd in Spenser's _Eclogues_. In ecl. v.

Palinode represents the Catholic priest. He invites Piers (who represents the Protestant clergy) to join in the fun and pleasures of May. Piers then warns the young man of the vanities of the world, and tells him of the great degeneracy of pastoral life, at one time simple and frugal, but now discontented and licentious. He concludes with the fable of the kid and her dam. The fable is this: A mother-goat, going abroad for the day, told her kid to keep at home, and not to open the door to strangers. She had not been gone long when up came a fox, with head bound from ”headache,” and foot bound from ”gout,” and carrying a ped of trinkets. The fox told the kid a most piteous tale, and showed her a little mirror. The kid, out of pity and vanity, opened the door; but while stooping over the ped to pick up a little bell, the fox clapped down the lid and carried her off.

In ecl. vii. Palinode is referred to by the shepherd Thomalin, as ”lording it over G.o.d's heritage,” feeding the sheep with chaff, and keeping for himself the grains.--Spenser, _Shepheardes Calendar_ (1572).

_Palinode_ (3 _syl._), a poem in recantation of a calumny. Stesich'oros wrote a bitter satire against Helen, for which her brothers, Castor and Pollux, plucked out his eyes. When, however, the poet recanted, his sight was restored to him again.

The bard who libelled Helen in his song, Recanted after, and redressed the wrong.

Ovid, _Art of Love_, iii.

Horace's _Ode_, xvi. i. is a palinode. Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard. Dr. Watts recanted in a poem the _praise_ he had previously bestowed on Queen Anne.

=Palinu'rus=, the pilot of aene'as. Palinurus, sleeping at the helm, fell into the sea and was drowned. The name is employed as a generic word for a steersman or pilot, and sometimes for a chief minister. Thus, Prince Bismarck might have been called the palinurus of William, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia.

More had she spoke, but yawned. All nature nods ...

E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm.

Pope, _The Dunciad_, iv. 614 (1742).

=Palisse= (_La_), a sort of M. Prudhomme; a pompous utterer of truisms and moral plat.i.tudes.

=Palissy= (_Bernard, the potter_), succeeded, after innumerable efforts and privations, in inventing the art of enamelling stone ware. He was arrested and confined in the Bastille for Huguenot principles, and died there in 1589.

=Palla'dio= (_Andrea_), the Italian cla.s.sical architect (1518-1580).

_The English Palladio_, Inigo Jones (1573-1653).

=Palla'dium.=